Tournament Results

April 25, 2015 - Chess master Chao Zhang won the Black
Warrior Chess Challenge with a perfect 4.0 score.
Alabama's two state scholastic co-champions, Jonathan Rasberry
and Vikhram Balagee took second and third respectively with
3.0 and 2.5 points. Jose Giron of Tuscaloosa took first place
in the reserve section.

The Tuscaloosa Scholastic Chess Championship had good
turnout from Birmingham and Jasper, but aside from Freedom
Chess Academy students, there were surprisingly few students
from Tuscaloosa's private and public school chess programs.

In the K-12 section Zachary Calen Stewart won with a perfect
5.0. Riley Smith and Nicholas Cockrell tied for second place.
Sedani Nagodawithana took first place with 4.5 points in the
K-6 section. Krishin Yerabolu, Jeffrey Cockrell, and FCA
seven-year old Calvin Kim tied for second place. In K-3 Parker
Liu won while Rishi Yellamraju and Michael Kennedy tied for
second.

FCA Kids win Another Alabama Team Championship!

March 17, 2015 - Eight Freedom Chess Academy players made the
long trek to Mobile to compete in the 2015 Alabama State
Scholastic Championship. Taking home the first place trophy in
the Primary (k-3) section were

Dustin Springfield, Jr.

Ashton Springfield

Ian Shen

Sophia Guo

Defending champions Chess Kids Nation (the Goliath of Alabama
Chess Clubs, based in Birmingham) tied FCA's score but FCA took
first on tie-break rules.

FCA's Elementary Club team placed 3rd in a six-team
competition for the state club championship this year; last
year's elementary team tied for first in 2014.

Our players played solidly in the individual competition.
Eddie Yang scored 4.0 / 5.0 to be part of a 6-way tie for
second place in the under 600 rated section.

Former FCA student Arden Markin won his fourth consecutive
state championship title. This year he repeated as a K-8
individual state co-champion. Younger brother Hudson Markin
tied for 3rd place in the Elementary section.